Definition Type: Element
Name: anchorPoint
Namespace: http://www.opengis.net/gml
Type: string:http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
Containing Schema: datums.xsd
MinOccurs 0
MaxOccurs (1)
Abstract
Documentation:
Description, possibly including coordinates, of the point or points used to anchor the datum to the Earth. Also known as the "origin", especially for Engineering and Image Datums. - For a geodetic datum, this point is also known as the fundamental point, which is traditionally the point where the relationship between geoid and ellipsoid is defined. In some cases, the "fundamental point" may consist of a number of points; and the parameters defining the geoid/ellipsoid relationship have then been averaged for a number of points and adopted as the datum definition. - For an engineering datum, the anchor point may be a physical point, or it may be a point with defined coordinates in another CRS. - For an image datum, the anchor point is usually either the centre of the image or the corner of the image. - For a temporal datum, this attribute is not defined. Instead of the anchor point, a temporal datum carries a separate time origin of type DateTime.
Collapse XSD Schema Diagram:
XSD Diagram of anchorPoint in schema datums_xsd (Geography Markup Language)
Collapse XSD Schema Code:
<xsd:element name="anchorPoint" type="string" minOccurs="0" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:documentation>Description, possibly including coordinates, of the point or points used to anchor the datum to the Earth. Also known as the "origin", especially for Engineering and Image Datums.
- For a geodetic datum, this point is also known as the fundamental point, which is traditionally the point where the relationship between geoid and ellipsoid is defined. In some cases, the "fundamental point" may consist of a number of points; and the parameters defining the geoid/ellipsoid relationship have then been averaged for a number of points and adopted as the datum definition.
- For an engineering datum, the anchor point may be a physical point, or it may be a point with defined coordinates in another CRS.
- For an image datum, the anchor point is usually either the centre of the image or the corner of the image.
- For a temporal datum, this attribute is not defined. Instead of the anchor point, a temporal datum carries a separate time origin of type DateTime. </xsd:documentation>
    </xsd:annotation>
</xsd:element>